Search results for "Stephen Frears"
The Lost King

The Lost King

The Lost King
IMDb: 6.7
108

An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III’s remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul
IMDb: 6.8
112

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Genre: Drama, History
Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins
IMDb: 6.8
110

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Program

The Program

The Program
IMDb: 6.5
103

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong’s performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that…

Genre: Drama
Philomena

Philomena

Philomena
IMDb: 7.6
98

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Genre: Drama
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight

Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight

Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight
IMDb: 6.7
97

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Tamara Drewe

Tamara Drewe

Tamara Drewe
IMDb: 6.2
111

A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Chéri

Chéri

Chéri
IMDb: 6.1
86

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lay the Favorite

Lay the Favorite

Lay the Favorite
IMDb: 4.8
94

A former stripper’s talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Queen

The Queen

The Queen
IMDb: 7.3
N/A

Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to circumvent the law to enforce it.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Mrs. Henderson Presents

Mrs. Henderson Presents

Mrs. Henderson Presents
IMDb: 7
103

Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Walter

Walter

Walter
IMDb: 7.3
70

A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Dirty Pretty Things

Dirty Pretty Things

Dirty Pretty Things
IMDb: 7.2
97

An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Fail Safe

Fail Safe

Fail Safe
IMDb: 7.4
86

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

High Fidelity

High Fidelity

High Fidelity
IMDb: 7.4
113

When record store owner and compulsive list-compiler Rob Gordon gets dumped by his long-time girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn’t changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of…

The Hi-Lo Country

The Hi-Lo Country

The Hi-Lo Country
IMDb: 6.1
114

An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big…

The Van

The Van

The Van
IMDb: 6.7
100

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, ‘Bimbo’ Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy,…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Mary Reilly

Mary Reilly

Mary Reilly
IMDb: 5.8
104

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

The Snapper

The Snapper

The Snapper
IMDb: 7.2
91

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Hero

Hero

Hero
IMDb: 6.5
117

Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He’s divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Grifters

The Grifters

The Grifters
IMDb: 6.9
110

A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
IMDb: 8.6
52

A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer – Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood, and maximum hilarity, all rolled…

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons
IMDb: 7.5
119

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears
IMDb: 7.1
111

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more…

Genre: Drama
My Beautiful Laundrette

My Beautiful Laundrette

My Beautiful Laundrette
IMDb: 6.8
98

A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Hit

The Hit

The Hit
IMDb: 7
98

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the…

Bloody Kids

Bloody Kids

Bloody Kids
IMDb: 6.2
91

Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), two 11-year-old boys – the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat

Three Men in a Boat
IMDb: 6.9
65

One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air…

Gumshoe

Gumshoe

Gumshoe
IMDb: 6.4
88

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
IMDb: 6.5
97

Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his…

Genre: Comedy